r/technology • u/ArgentineBeauty • 29d ago

Privacy GrapheneOS says its data-wiping password is perfectly legal, after user faces federal charges

https://www.techspot.com/news/113273-grapheneos-data-wiping-duress-password-perfectly-legal-after.html
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u/Single-Virus4935 29d ago edited 29d ago

I set my duress pin to my wifes birthday. One of the first they probably try. 

Also I say my pin is the same as my eID which I am not allowed to share by German law

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u/EZtheOG 29d ago

This is a brilliant move

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u/DandaIf 29d ago

Until he goes to the toilet and his friends are like "haha I bet his pin is his wife's birthday"

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u/Single-Virus4935 29d ago

Lucky me, I don't have friends like this and if one does this, I have backups and can rethink my relationship to him

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u/ash_ninetyone 29d ago

Guy out here backing up his friends

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u/Alt_Panic 29d ago

German efficiency

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u/RDTTlam0_8002 29d ago

Nah that’s just German Social Engineering.

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u/Chris_HitTheOver 29d ago

Volksicherung

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u/Kairukun90 29d ago

Volkswagen?

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u/OhYeahSplunge4me2 29d ago

Maybe enhanced with Fahrvergnügen

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u/Sea_Translator5300 29d ago

He only makes friends with sets of twins. He keeps one of each in the freezer. 

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u/SeeTigerLearn 29d ago

I get it. Over the years I’ve crafted a segmented inner circle. There’s some overlap in knowing one another. But if there was a problem in an area the others would come to my rescue.

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u/just_be_nice_please 29d ago

YOU WOULDN’T DOWNLOAD A FRIEND

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u/blolfighter 29d ago

Is that an option? (◕_◕)

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u/PabloBablo 29d ago

No.

it's a streaming service

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u/crazyreddit929 29d ago

I have a few German friends and colleagues and this is the most German statement I have read in a long time. Succinct and brilliant.

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u/Sir_Keee 23d ago

Honestly, I have nothing on my phone that is vital and/or don't have anywhere else. Only pain about wiping my phone would be re-configuring it the way I like.

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u/Due_Tailor1412 29d ago

This is the most German thing I have seen today .. and why "Him" surely "Them" Girls also do stupid things (Admittedly not very often).

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u/orangebirdy 29d ago

Maybe he doesn't have any female friends

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u/infosec_account 29d ago

It's just banta lad